To a non-Chinese speaker (like me), and especially to a Westerner (like me), Chinese is the most impenetrable family of languages on Earth. While there may be only an eighth as many syllables as in ...

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“Yi, er, san . . .” A Chinese language student counts each stroke while writing the Chinese character for “big”, 大. This seems like a simple process, but new evidence suggests that studying Chinese ...

Mandarin Chinese: coming to a school near you soon? shutterstock Mandarin Chinese is seen as being of increasing strategic importance, and in recent years there’s been a growing number of students ...